Born 1980, Maryland, USA. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Sophie Larrimore is an American artist whose practice spans painting and works on paper, often centered on stylized depictions of canine and human figures. Her work explores the relationship between form, rhythm, and composition, merging humor and tenderness with a visual language that feels both intimate and timeless.

Larrimore draws on a wide range of historical sources, including medieval tapestries and bestiaries, Persian and Indian miniatures, Byzantine icons, and early American folk traditions. These influences manifest in her flattened perspectives, simplified faces, and geometric repetition, recalling pre-Renaissance iconography while remaining distinctly contemporary.

Her paintings frequently unfold on raw linen, where forms appear embedded in the fibers like fossils. Compositions built around semicircles, crosses, and rhythmic patterns create a meditative sense of order, while hand-carved or Tramp Art–style frames lend her works a devotional quality. By deliberately withholding explicit narratives, Larrimore invites viewers to engage their own imagination, encountering her figures as archetypes rather than portraits.

She received her BFA from The Cooper Union in New York and has presented solo exhibitions at Cadet Capela (Paris), Venus Over Manhattan (New York), and The Pit (Los Angeles). Her work has been covered in The New York Times and Artsy, and she was awarded the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Grant in 2019.

Across media, Larrimore’s practice transforms traditional genres into a personal and contemporary vocabulary. Her dogs, nudes, and landscapes are less subjects than compositional tools—vehicles through which she explores rhythm, repetition, and the timeless human impulse to tell stories through images.